i had a pair of 500watt kick ass 6x9s put in my car not long ago, i know i need an amp to run em at full whack, but i had 300watts in my old car and they sound superb without amp, now these sound crap, cant even but the slightest bit of bass on em and they get distorted at quite low volumes, i tried my m8s speaker which works nice in his car in the same setup in mine and it sounded crap, ive tried all the diff equal and stuff on the stereo and the wiring is fine, what else could it be???

 

The surroundings of the speakers, what they are mounted to and how much space is behind them will make a MASSIVE difference.

Also.......have you tried a different headunit as that could be faulty!

 

the headunit was brand new out of the box, and its screwed into a custom made parcel shelf

 

Have you got the wire's round the right way?? and GOOD speaker wire not the shit you get when you buy new one's (the gray doorbell stuff )

 

yeh they have that flat vibe wire that comes with the vibe speakers, and i have swapped the wires round and it still sounds the same

 

Best thing to do mate would be to get an amp on them dont forget that your head unit amp will only be about 50 watt's per channel thats probley got alot to do with why it's distorting

 

And that will only be 50 watts Peak! Realistically about 10-12w RMS

 

yeh i understand that but what i dont get is i got 50w x 4 head unit and my m8 got a 45w x 4 unit and they sound better on his like proper good

 

The numbers dont mean anything compared to each other unless they are both measured in the same units.

The only which actually means anything is an RMS figure - which that won't be.

What happens if you use his stereo in your car then?

 

Bin them, 6x9's arnt worth a wank

 

Different headunit's will sound totally different the bass and trebbel will be set a different range's on each unit